Quotes About Wimsey

#1. My idea is that Miss Vane didn't do it," said Wimsey. "I dare say that's an idea which has already occurred to you, but with the weight of my great mind behind it, no doubt it strikes the imagination more forcibly.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#2. Thank you. This line of salt is the beach. And this piece of bread is a rock at low-water level.' Wimsey twitched his chair closer to the table. 'And this salt-spoon,' he said, with childlike enjoyment, 'can be the body.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#3. Do you know how to pick a lock?"
"Not in the least, I'm afraid."
"I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#4. Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior certainty, he felt shaken.
"My dear man, where's the flaw in [this case]?"
"There isn't one ... There's nothing wrong about it at all, except that the girl's innocent.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#5. Nobody minds coarseness, but one must draw the line at cruelty


-Lord Peter Wimsey

Dorothy L. Sayers

#6. Lord Peter Wimsey stretched himself luxuriously between the sheets provided by the Hotel Meurice.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#7. WHAT IN THE WORLD, Wimsey, are you doing in this Morgue? demanded Captain Fentiman, flinging aside the Evening Banner with the air of a man released from an irksome duty.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#8. Thank God!' said Wimsey. 'Where there is a church, there is civilisation.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#9. Bunter: "I assure your lordship that for the firsttime in my existence I regret that I have made no practical study of campanology."
Wimsey: "I am always so delighted to find that there are things you cannot do.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#10. Like all male creatures Wimsey was a simple soul at bottom.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#11. How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do"
"Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#12. Bunter came with me in the role of a friend. A role he has always played to perfection."
"It does not require dissimulation, my lord," said Bunter.
"Thank you," said Peter.

Jill Paton Walsh

#13. I don't know why, but there's a certain element of panic in writing lyrics that I'm not sure I enjoy. I don't write lyrics first, ever. I've never done that. So, in a sense, the lyrics are a bit of an afterthought - it's music first.

Mike Patton

#14. I say - I don't mind betting this is the most popular thing Campbell ever did. Nothing in life became him like the leaving of it, eh, what?

Dorothy L. Sayers

#15. And you, Mary, if you must run off to London, why do it in that unfinished manner, so that I was left without the car, and couldn't catch anything until the midnight train at Northallerton? It's so much better to do things neatly and properly, even stupid things.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#16. She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#17. You often hear this about directors, how it's like having the best set of toys. This fabulous train set, the biggest box of toys that a kid could possibly have. The best directors look like a kid having more fun than you're supposed to have.

William Sadler

#18. Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It's global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only had a scene for 15 years.

Gabriel Iglesias

#19. I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#20. His [Lord Peter's] long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from Gorgonzola.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#21. The Lord has made us to be creative, and the sense of achievement will help to lift our spirits.

Shirley Corder

#22. Life was a very odd thing indeed, he reflected, when you really thought about it.

Alastair Reynolds

#23. We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#24. I didn't mind thinking you were a murderer," said Lady Mary spitefully, "but I do mind you being such an ass.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#25. I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit
not too strenuous, not too sedentary; trains and invigorates the mind.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#26. But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues

Dorothy L. Sayers

#27. Instead of getting at the other side with something just as bad as they did to you - or something worse - you do something good. Or at least you keep yourself from doing something bad

Jeanne DuPrau

#28. In order to accomplish more than you ever have before, you must do more than you have ever done before.

Mac Anderson